Living my Bliss, My Passion?

This is a post I wrote a while ago, just didn't finish it until now. 



September 20, 2013

It is interesting how so soon after taking the incredible leap with my child and eliminating the car safety seat, that I was faced with a similar opportunity in my own personal life.  I was at a birthday party this weekend and I had a conversation with two very powerful and spiritually connected women. Somehow, even though I don't know either of them very well and we have never had truly intimate conversations about spirituality or beliefs, our conversation honed in immediately to our chosen spirituality, goals and life purpose. That's how matters of the spirit work, placing beings together at exactly the right time to make things happen.  I was asked a point blank question "If you could do anything without fear or expectation and it would get you EXACTLY what you want in life - what would you do?".  Wow, no safety nets allowed!!  My response? Simply, "Write".  That was my immediate, uncensored thought. I do love writing and sharing and teaching.  Is this ALL I want to do?  No, but if I could choose one thing to fulfill me, nurture me and create peace it would be to write books that help people through major transitions in their lives.  Birth, child rearing and death. What would you do with your life if you could leap empty handed and blindfolded into the great unknown?  If you had nothing to fear, nothing to lose?  No safety seats, no protection devices.  What I want so intensely is to live my passion and bliss, yet what I feel I MUST do is keep my focus on creating security.  How do I balance the two so I can end up with a fulfilled life?



Follow your Bliss and the Universe will open doors for you, where there were only walls.  

Sage advice, from a man I admire and respect.  Joseph Campbell.  A mythologist and cross cultural anthropologist who wrote on the subject of intention, purpose, and the story or mythology that connects each of us to another and connects ourselves to an inner force.  I find myself at an impasse and without that sense of balance, drive and passion for what tomorrow should be.  Maybe it is a form of depression that keeps me slightly off balance and disconnects me from that inner force or light. I also think trying to figure out what my next chapter is going to be while I am still actively grieving is tantamount to a Sysiphean task.  I can't possibly think clearly and with purpose when my core thoughts are rooted in sadness.


I will "noodle" on this concept for a while but it is the quote from Joseph Campbell that will be my guide-on, my sail, my weather vane.  Follow your Bliss.